"Everybody makes mistakes, everybody has those days, everybody knows what, what I'm talkin' bout, everybody gets that way." -Hannah Montana

Yeah, I totally just quoted a Hannah Montana song and I'm not ashamed at all, that girl makes some good points.

So I don't think I can recall ever knowing a person who has never said something along the lines of: "I'm just having a really bad day" or "Today just isn't my day." I find myself saying some form of these sentences a frequent amount of times during the course of a month. I see it on my Facebook news feed and Twitter feed every now and then. Everyone just has bad days. It's inevitable. The days where it seems like nothing goes your way and you feel like you have a gray cloud following you around. They really suck and sometimes you feel like you will never recover but in my opinion, I think having bad days is good for you.

I know it seems like a crazy concept to think that a bad day is good for you but I think we need to have days that aren't so perfect to show us that life isn't what it seems. They kind of show us that we have to get through the challenges and the struggles that the world throws at us in order to truly cherish and enjoy the good days. The bad days remind us that the crappy stuff doesn't last forever and that super good and amazing stuff is within reach, we just have to push through. For me, getting through the bad days makes the good days so much more worth it. If we go through our lives just having good days, where nothing goes wrong and nothing "sucks", then are we really even living? I feel as though to truly "live" life, there needs to be a mix of bad, terrible, crappy, amazing, great and mediocre moments. Life really is a long, twisty roller coaster of which we are all passengers, just trying to make it through the twists and turns without throwing up and enjoying the free falls, the rush of excitement and unexpected moments.

I also think having bad days allows us to appreciate the happy and amazing mini moments that we sometimes brush over on our good days. Yeah, today may have been terrible: you didn't get enough sleep, you did badly on an exam and you fell in the mud (or snow, or rain, or whatever else mother nature throws at you). But, your best friend bought you a cup of coffee just because she felt like it, and I'm sure that just made your day, right? You feel so thankful and appreciative to have your friend be there for you, doing something so minor, especially on the this terrible day. The bad days allow you to look at the small. minor things that make you happy. They let you appreciate the little things. Yeah you're having a real crappy day but just think, you have that awesome concert on Saturday that you're so excited for or you're going out with your friends earlier.

Having bad days is just a part of life. But I encourage you--on the next bad day you are having, at the end of the day, look back and think about all of the small things that were good. You found your favorite pen, you had a good talk with a friend, you had a super awesome nap. Something minor that could turn a little bit of that gray day back to life. Life is about the bad and the good. The rotten and the ripe. They let you appreciate the good, learn from the bad and have different and unique moments. Embrace the bad days! They are apart of your journey.

And always remember...

"Nobody's perfect, you gotta work it again and again til you get it right."-Hannah Montana, again.